Food-package.



J. A. KAVANAGH.

FOOD PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 1120.14, 1911.

1,042,119, Patented 0012.2,1912.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. KAVANAGH, OF YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

noon-PACKAGE.

Patented Oct. 22, 1912.

Application filed December 14, 1911. Serial No. 665,608

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, JAMEs A. KAvANAoH,

ot' the city of New York, in the county of As is well known, cheese ferments or.

works, due to the acids created by the decomposing action of the bacteria. Hence it is necessary to provide cheese receptacles with vents through which the gases may escape. deemed practicable to provide small salable packages of cheese adapted for individual retail sale.

By my invention the units of cheese are preferably cubes of about one inch in size. I employ waxed paper in which are perforations.

In the drawing I have shown in Figure 1 a sheet of waxed wrapping paper appropri- For this reason it has not. been -ing witnesses.

ately perforated, while Fig. 2 shows the completed package.

The wrapping paper is transparent and is of color corresponding to that of the cheese,

so that the purchaser may see at a glance whether the package contains American, Swiss, Roquefort or Camembert cheese.

By the means described cheese may be packed and distributed to retail selling points and purchased in desired quantities without unnecessary handllng, and it may be kept int-he packages for a relatively long period of time. The cleanliness ofthe "ommodity is maintained and its taste is not affected by contact with other matter.

I claim as my invention As an article of manufacture. a food package consisting of a small section of cheese adapted for retail distribution, and a paper wrapper perforated at suitable points to provide vents for the escape of the gases created by the fermentation of the cheese.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- JAMES A. KAVANAGI-l.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM J. HARDTMAN, NATHANIEL G. IENnLn'roN. 

